One of the not so nice things that occurred with this is that I got a staph infection.  I'm mainly telling this to those of you who aren't lucky enough to have a wonderful nurse for a wife.  I firmly believe that if it wasn't for my wife, I'd likely have wound up in the hospital with IV Antibiotics instead of oral antibiotics.

Two days after the excision, my arm was very warm, swollen and red from just above my elbow to almost down to my wrist.  The incision seemed to hurt more than I though it would and I could barely unbend my arm without pain.  So, I figured that I had just underestimated the pain that would be assosciated....  However, my wife drug my arm under some bright lights and started to place pressure on each side of the incision.  I won't give all the details, but there was something obviously not right about what was coming out of the incision.  So after she had a bit of freaking out (nurses immideately jump to WCS), called ahead and went back to the dermatologist the following day.  Needless to say, the doctor was also very concerned and immediately took a culture for analysis.

Since my wife works in a hospital and I go there fairly often, we started treating it like it was MRSA and I was prescribed some "big, honking" antibiotics.  In an odd way I was kind of flattered that I picked up something that they thought needed sulfa drugs.   After scheduling a checkup 4 days later,  my wife cleans the house from top to bottom, my daughter gets nightly baths with cetafil anti-baterial soap, and I swallow horse pills.

The good news is that the labs came back as just plain-old staph.  Dodged a bullet on that one fo sure.  But needless to say for anyone about to get the same procedure done, keep a sharp eye on what is going on with the incision.  I, once again, got very lucky and this could have turned out much worse.  Instead, I just have a cool little story to tell.

Now you're caught up to current day, and my incision is free of stitches and I will have a pretty good scar.  There's still a bit of healing to be done at the site of the infection, but I don't need to wear even a band-aid right now.